Kitchen cabinet budget question

[mrsd2006]

If you have had a remodel with new cabinets, where did you get your cabinets and if you don't mind sharing, how much did you spend? 

We picked out some from Home Depot, Kraftmaid, and had them priced out last night- all
most $11,000. But we got a $1400 discount due to the number we ordered. I about fell off my chair. I was expecting $5k to $6k. My kitchen is small. These aren't even all wood, that would have been 20% more. We did get two glass doors, two corner cabs with lazy Susans, one cab with slide out shelves, garbage can holder and a spice rack (Only cause we had a weird 3"  space to fill). Does that sound about right? If you didn't get your cabinets at HD or Lowes, where did you get them? 

[sjh722]

I ordered mine from a local cabinet re-seller and they were half the price of Home Depot. (They are from a fairly local manufacturer and were a slightly more budget line in that there weren't as many choices as their other lines.)

Mine are shaker-style painted maple, I have a pull-out trash can, lazy susan, cabinet surround for the fridge, and 42" uppers, and I think it was around $5K, including hardware and laminate counters. It was about 2 years ago so I don't remember exactly. I do know I looked at adding a buffet with cabinets + glass uppers and that added another $2,800 to the price, so I skipped it.

I'd shop around. It's a pain to take your layout several different places, but it's worth it. If every where is $10k+, then pick what you like best, but you may find that that price is an outlier. (FWIW HD & Lowes have been significantly higher than 2 local lumberyards + the place I ordered mine from, consistently, in my experience.)

[mrsd2006]

Sjh that is exactly what we are doing too! Do you have a picture of your kitchen?

Blue sky, I'm in Atlanta.

[auntie]

We bought ours at a home remodeling supplier that serves the building trades.

Ours were semi custom, solid wood (3/4" pine). I got a few pull out base units and a trash can, and taller wall cabinets. They were about $8K for a medium sized space/ no island, but it was 20 years ago.

[jillybean222]

We just did ours - cabinets were just under 8K. We have a massive pantry so I don't have a ton of cabinets but we have all the stuff you mentioned -  lazy susan, a couple of rollout shelves, some drawers, and trash cabinets.  

[treedimensional]

Kraftmaid from Home Depot here. Our small kitchen was about $11,000. Cabinets are cherry, 2 glass fronts, one lazy susan. Photo taken during installation, molding hadn't been installed yet.

[munkii]

We were quoted $11k, not including installation, at a big box. We ended up going with Ikea during one of the 20% sales and came in under $5k.

[thatgirl2478]

I won't buy from HD any more. I had previously put in a KraftMade 'Premier' line cabinet and they started falling apart in 6 yrs.

All the cabinets in my current house are from cliqstudios.com. We paid $7k for approximately 30 linear feet of cabinets - uppers & lowers - some specialty. They are better quality/equal quality than what I've seen at the big box stores for more $$ (not the big box 'off the shelf' or 'economy' line - but their semi custom high end cabinets).

ETA: picture - this is their cherry russet color (obviously a kitchen in progress)



To the left of the stove is a 3 drawer unit and a large pantry with rollout shelves, to the right is a baking pan cabinet, the trash pullouts, then in the corner is the lazy susan base, then next to that (can't see it) is another baking pan cabinet with top drawer.  We decided against the pull out shelves in the other 2 large base cabinets (next to the fridge and between the diswasher & angle cabinet at the end) because our previous experience with them was that the hardware pulled out of the sides - however I DON'T think that would happen with these cabinets as the whole cabinet is constructed with 1/2" plywood sides vs the particle board we had in our previous cabinets from HD).